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KS2 Football Club
Today in Football Club, the children took part in a series of matches with specific challenges and restrictions, such as one-touch finishes, overloads and passing forward. These activities helped them to think strategically, improve their teamwork and develop greater control and awareness during gameplay. Everyone showed great enthusiasm and growing confidence throughout the session.
Harvest Appeal
This morning we launched our Harvest Appeal for this year by hearing from Bishop Philip about his Pedalathon on 17th October where he will be cycling to visit and pray at a school or church in all 14 deaneries across the Diocese. We will be supporting Bishop Philip's Harvest Appeal for Christians in South Africa by joining in with his pedalathon over the next few weeks, including half term. We are encouraging our school family to cycle on bikes or scooters just like we did for the Big Lent Walk and we would love for you to send your photos in and the distance. Donations can be made on parent pay shortly. Our RotaKids are also supporting Darwen Asylum and Refugee Enterprise (DARE) and Darwen Rotary this Harvest by creating Winter Warmer boxes filled with toiletries, packets or tins of food and warm clothing for DARE families, the elderly, isolated, poor and vulnerable people in our community . They are also collecting winter coats for the homeless and poor through Darwen Rotary club. Please send in any donations and thank you in advance for your generosity. We then sang some of our Harvest songs for our Church Harvest Festival this Sunday 12th October at 11.00am- all welcome and our school Harvest Festival on Thursday 23rd October led by our WOW group and Reception, Years 1 and 2. All welcome.
Foodie Friends club- Yummy Shape Biscuits
At our after-school foodie club, we made some absolutely delicious buttery biscuits. It took lots of teamwork to get the right dough, the amazing bakers spent time weighing sugar and flour, cracking eggs, and mixing .We then used a variety of different shape cutters to make our biscuits. The end result was a lot of fun, and a lot of tasty treats!
Year 4 - RE: Exploring Artefacts Used in Buddhist Prayer
On our quest to understand what prayer is to people of different faiths, the Year 4 class decided they wanted to explore what artefacts Buddhists might use to pray. The children examined their artefact and did an observational drawing of it. They then recorded how they thought it might be used and formulated some questions specific to their artefact.
Year 4 - Class Worship: God’s Smuggler
This week in class worship, the Year 4 class heard the story of Brother Andrew, the Dutch Christian missionary who risked his life to smuggle Bibles into communist countries. We considered the Christian values he showed and how he lived out God’s Big Story by helping persecuted Christians to practise their faith. In class, we reflected on our we spread God’s love in our school and some children acted their ideas out for the rest of the class. Their ideas included, helping people up when they have fallen, holding the door for people, saying thank you and welcoming others.
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Football Training
Today, the children continued with a game-based football practice, focusing on tactics and in-game coaching. They worked on positioning, decision-making and communication, applying their skills in match scenarios and showing great teamwork throughout
Year 4 Art - Optical Illusions
Our art lesson this week focused on creating an image by using an artistic process. We looked at how lenticular printing gives an optical illusion too. Using our Amazon theme, the children selected two of their favourite images that they would use in their piece. Next the children watched the step by step guide on how to create an optical illusion by cutting up each of their a4 sheets into 2cm strips. Cutting each photo one at a time ensured that the strips didn’t get mixed up and they also ordered them one to ten. After cutting up both images they then moved onto scoring a piece of a3 card using 2cm strips that had been copied onto the back of the sheet. This made it much easier to fold and following a demonstration, the children got to work making a fan by folding each piece alternately. This was super tricky and took lots of concentration. The children really supported each other through this helping with cutting and putting paper clips at both ends to secure it. As this took so much time, we will complete the second half of the lesson in a few days when we take the strips and stick them onto the card in sequential order. We can’t wait to see the finished articles on display in the hall!
Year 4 Picture News - Primary Park Run
In our class worship we shared Picture News which introduced the new initiative of a ‘Primary Parkrun’ which aims to bring junior running events closer to primary schools. It is inclusive and not just about fitness, but also about helping children build friendships, confidence and life skills in their local community. We then moved onto looking at community and what the bible tells us about the importance of getting together as a community. Christians believe service to others is very important, because it helps demonstrate love for God and others. We loved really like the quote from Phil Jackson who is an NBA coach as we really believe it to be true. ‘The strength of. Team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team’
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Year 4 Art Willow Painting
Our art session this week focused on Willow Style painting on plates. We linked this to our class novel The Explorer and selected three key elements of the story such as the plane, the Amazon river and an animal featured in the story such as the sloth. Next we drew these onto our paper plates faintly so that we could then go over them with a fine brush and ink. The children really tried hard to keep to the outlines with super fine brush strokes but it proved a difficult job! The final plate designs were all unique and when put together, looked very effective.
Year 4 Gymnastics
Today we had a gymnastic taster session with Passion 4 Gymnastics. We started with a warm up using different ways of moving around the room. Next we moved onto stretches which included doing three small bounces in a crouched position then stretching up and touching our toes. The children moved into straddle, tuck and pike positions and continued their stretching to ensure that they were fully prepared for the session. In the next stage of the session, the children moved onto the six stations All of the stations involved some form of rolling and worked on developing core strength. The children really enjoyed taking part in today's session and we hope that we can get some of them to take part in an after school club and gym competition in the spring term.
Whole School Worship - Agent Ananias
We learned about a very special mission given by God this week in worship. God directed Ananias, a disciple in Damascus, to heal Saul of his blindness and baptise him. Despite Ananias's fear due to Saul's reputation as a persecutor of Christians, he obeyed the Lord's assurance that Saul was a "chosen instrument". Ananias laid hands on Saul, restoring his sight, and then baptised him, marking his dramatic conversion from persecutor to the apostle Paul, a key figure in spreading Christianity. We reflected on what we learned from the story and the children shared their thoughts, including that we should trust God’s choices, and that everyone has the ability to change.
Year 4 - Science: Researching Habitats
This week our Year 4 scientists were working scientifically by conducting research to answer questions about habitats. Each group was given a habitat and asked to use the National Geographic site to answer the following four questions: Which animals live there? Which plants live there? What is the climate like? What are the conditions? The children then used their group research to present their findings in their books.